Landing Point · KM Comoros
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Avassa | Active |
| Comoros Domestic Cable System | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-04-17 through 2026-06-07 - live ICMP round-trip time via our monitoring probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 3 | 155.4 ms |
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 2 | 214.4 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 2 | 275.5 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 2 | 258.6 ms |
| #6410 own probe | Sao Paulo BR | 1 | 367.3 ms |
| #6427 own probe | Sydney AU | 1 | 331.6 ms |
| #7062 own probe | Cape Town ZA | 1 | 70.9 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 1 | 251.0 ms |
| #1015932 own probe | Odessa UA | 1 | 262.5 ms |
Mutsamudu is the capital city of the island of Anjouan and the second-largest city in the Comoros, an archipelago nation in the Indian Ocean. As a landing point, Mutsamudu connects to the submarine cable network through two cables, making it one of the more connected landing points in the country. The cables serving Mutsamudu are principally regional and domestic in character, linking islands within the Comorian archipelago and extending to the nearby French territory of Mayotte.
The two cables landing at Mutsamudu — Avassa and the Comoros Domestic Cable System — together establish Anjouan's place within the inter-island connectivity framework of the Comoros. Rather than providing intercontinental reach directly, Mutsamudu's cable infrastructure focuses on linking the islands of the archipelago with one another and with neighboring Mayotte, forming a short-range regional corridor across this part of the western Indian Ocean.
Avassa is a 260-kilometer submarine cable that reached ready-for-service status in 2016, currently at draft status. It connects landing points across Comoros and Mayotte, making it the cable that provides Mutsamudu with its only international link outside the Comorian national territory. At 260 kilometers, Avassa is a short regional system designed to bridge the narrow but significant maritime distance between these neighboring island territories.
Comoros Domestic Cable System reached ready-for-service status in 2010, making it the earliest submarine cable to land in Comoros and the first to serve Mutsamudu. This cable connects landing points entirely within Comoros, providing inter-island connectivity across the archipelago. It represents the foundational layer of submarine cable infrastructure for the country, and its landing at Mutsamudu has given Anjouan a domestic submarine connection since the cable network in Comoros first came into existence.
Among the four submarine cable landing points in Comoros, Mutsamudu ranks alongside Chindini in hosting two cables each, placing it in the upper tier of Comorian landing points by cable count. Moroni, the national capital, leads the country with four cables, while Fomboni Moheli hosts a single cable. Mutsamudu is therefore a secondary but meaningfully connected node within the national cable geography.
Mutsamudu functions as a dual-cable landing point serving both the domestic inter-island network and the short-range international corridor to Mayotte. The Comoros Domestic Cable System ties Mutsamudu into the broader Comorian island network, while Avassa extends that reach outward to Mayotte. Together, these two cables mean that Anjouan's capital is not solely dependent on a single system for its submarine connectivity.
Within the Comorian submarine cable graph, Mutsamudu occupies a position of secondary importance relative to Moroni but remains one of only four landing points in the entire country. Its combination of a domestic cable and a short international link to Mayotte makes it a distinct node that bridges intra-archipelago and cross-border connectivity for the island of Anjouan.
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